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Ryan Gantz

Feb 11, 2008 May 31, 2012 7 422

A tall chap from the Boston area, currently living in Santa Barbara, CA with my lovely wife, my son Devo, and our Norwich terrier, Alfie. I studied English in college. I like to travel, and I sometimes dabble in music, comedy, and other shenanigans. I like TED videos, hip hop, Settlers of Catan, Top Chef, Top Gun, Top Cat, tapenade, Topps, and tops. Now top that!

I'm a graphic, UI and front-end web designer, proud to be Creative Director with SB Nation's small product team. I spend my days staring at screens and messing with XHTML, CSS, and Photoshop.

Before joining SB Nation, I helped design and build political campaign and progressive community websites for clients including Senators John Edwards, Mark Warner, Tom Harkin and Sherrod Brown; the NRDC; and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. I used to drive an ice cream truck.

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Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball Team

Boston Celtics National Basketball Association Team

New England Patriots National Football League Team

USC Trojans NCAA Men's Football Division 1A Team

Tiger Woods Golfer(s)

Muhammud Ali Boxer(s)

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Anybody using Fitocracy yet? It appears to be invite-only at present. I can't seem to properly connect it with Runkeeper, but I like the idea of the social gaming stuff.

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BBM Presents: SB Nation NL East Rivals Chat

BlackBerry Messenger presents a unique SB Nation Chat. Bitter NL East rivals come together to discuss mascots, ballparks, primadonnas, and common enemies. Also, a baseball game. Each blogger used a BlackBerry® smartphone to participate via BlackBerry Messenger.

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From Amazin' Avenue:

Eric Simon, Alex Nelson, and Ted Berg

Discuss with Mets fans on Amazin' Avenue.

From The Good Phight:

WholeCamels, dajafi, and FuquaManuel

Discuss with Phillies fans on The Good Phight.

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SB Nation MLB Mid-Season Roundtable Chat

BlackBerry Messenger presents a unique SB Nation Roundtable discussion looking back on the first half of the 2010 MLB season and ahead to the second half. Each blogger used a BlackBerry smartphone to participate via BlackBerry Messenger. Visit SB Nation.com to explore comments and discussion about this dialogue across other SB Nation sites.

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Eric Simon, Amazin' Avenue (Mets)

Jeff Sullivan, Lookout Landing (Mariners)

Will McDonald, Royals Review (Royals)

Adam Morris, Lone Star Ball (Rangers)

Eric Stephen, True Blue LA (Dodgers)

Sky Kalkman, Beyond the Box Score (Stats)

The full-color chat transcript is included below. Jump into the comments and share your take, or read and discuss the roundtable on Royals Review, Amazin' Avenue, Lookout Landing, Beyond the Box Score, True Blue LA, and Lone Star Ball.

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Blog Huddle SB Nation is Proud to Sponsor Kick! at SXSW 2010

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Will you be in Austin during this year's SXSW? Come out and join us for a rousing game of kickball and some breakfast tacos. Veteran blogger Anil Dash started Kick! in 2002 as a way for South by Southwest Interactive attendees to meet each other and get some exercise. And with the conference growing by leaps and bounds, we think these kinds of activities are more important than ever.

SB Nation is proud to sponsor this year's game, on Saturday March 13th, 10:30am at Palm Playground behind the convention center. We'll bring equipment, coffee, breakfast tacos and t-shirts. Whether you're attending SXSW or just staying in the Austin area, we hope you'll come on out and join us for a good time. We're thinking of adding some twists to traditional kickball rules to keep things interesting.

Whether you're looking to play or just to socialize, we hope you'll come join us. Trei Brundrett and I will be on hand to help Anil keep the games going, and we'd love to talk with anyone who can make it!

More info and a map on dashes.com
RSVP and add to your calendar on Upcoming.org
Or RSVP on Facebook

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SB Nation Tech Team watching the Caps crush the Panthers

over 2 years ago Ryan-avatar_tiny Ryan Gantz 5 comments 1 recs

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Flickr's The Commons has been a great resource for vintage images with no copyright restrictions, such as this Library of Congress shot I used for our Blog Huddle Logo.

It's also fun just to click through old photos, especially those involving athletes and/or moustaches. (via The Library of Congress)

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Nationals

the new nationals ballpark!

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